Mikki and all, You are of course right Mikki. The "Court of public opinion" has occasionally played a pivotal role on individual cases in these sorts of situations, and will likely do so again in the near future. Kens's dislike for the media is of course well known as he has posted and spoken about it many times in the past and has been burnt by it himself on occasion. This too, will likely happen again as well. ICANN's biggest fear is a upswelling of public and media opposition to it' "Plans" for all of us stakeholders. Most especially if it grows in breadth. That is why it originally haired a PR firm (Olgivie?) to handle it's PR. As we all or most of us anyway have just witnessed in Seattle with the WTO meetings being closed down by demonstrators being brutalized by the police, the WTO meetings, the same sort of thing may occur in the future with future ICANN meetings as their alliance with WIPO becomes better known. This would be a bad thing, but possibly necessary. I have always thought that bad politics and bad policy leads to civil disorder and violence. And sometimes it can create a scenario that can bring about death's of people, as history has shown us in the past and just showed us again in Seattle. Mikki Barry wrote: > >gee thats funny... > > > >i thought this was a dispute resolution between 2 parties who both agreed to > >it. > >what has "support" got to do with it. are you suggesting that people line up > >and advocate on behalf of one party or the other with the dispute resolution > >provider. > > Support actually has quite a bit to do with it. Support caused a toy > company to back down when a 12 year old registered "pokey.org." > Support caused Archie comics to back down when a father registered > "veronica.org" for his newborn. Public image is very important to > most corporations. They are far more likely to be reasonable when > they know that the world is watching. > > > > >maybe we ought to arbitrate it in the newspapers or in some list. . or > >better yet lets put up a votebot and take a vote... > >kinda like the old roman coliseum ... thumbs up or down !!! > > Open, transparent and accountable. Isnt' that what we're striving for here? Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
